Improvement in harness-rosettes



S. S. SARGEANT.

HARNESS ROSETTES.

Patented Nov.16,1875.

'No.170,0Z1.

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' WITNESSES 1W VEJV'TOR A I V. By 7 I m I Attorney N.PETERS,FHOTO-LITHOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON. n C.

n STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL S. SARGEANT, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARNESS-ROSETTES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 170,021, datedNovember 16, 1875; application filed June 17, 1874. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL S. SARGEANT, of Newark, in the county ofEssex and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improved Harness-Rosetteand I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,making part of this specification- Figure 1 being a top view of therosette; Fig. 2, a transverse section through the center of the rosette;Fig. 3, a view of the parts composing the rosette separate; Figs. 4,5,6, and 7 views of described modifications of the rosette.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

The rosette is composed of a sheet-metal top piece, A, a sheet-metalback piece, B, a filling, O, placed between the top and back pieces, anda wire loop or shank, D.

The ends a a of the loop 1) are inserted through holes I) b in the backpiece B, and then bent down over the inner surface thereof. The fillingG then having been placed between the top and back pieces, the edge ofthe top piece is swaged down around the filling 0, and over the edge ofthe back piece B, thereby holding all the parts together.

I treat the top or front piece A in various ways for ornamenting therosette. As shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, a central aperture, 61, is cutin the plate, showing thereby the surface of the filling O, which Igenerally or frequently'make of or cover with enameled leather, sincethe filling may be entirely of leather, enameled or otherwise finished,or the main filling may be of pasteboard or other cheap substance, andthe upper surface thereof covered with enameled or othersuitably-ornamented leather or material.

Any ornamental figure or form may be cut through the top piece beforeputting the rosette together, as, for example, the letter S, (shown inFig. 4;) or the plate may be simply a narrow rim around the edge of therosette, uncovering nearly the whole surface of the enameled leather,upon which an ornamental letter or other form of ornament may beattached, as seen at f, Fig. 5; or the top piece maybe closed and struckinto ornamental form-fiat, convex, or irregularly raised-as,

for example, the convex outline shown in Fig. 6, or the form in stepsshown in Fig. 7.

Thus the construction allows a great variety of ornamentation in asimple and inexpensive manner.

What 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

As a new article of manufacture, a harnessrosette composed of asheet-metal top or front piece, A, ornamented by perforating or shapinga sheet-metal back piece, B, perforated to

